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The Athletic has live coverage of in the matchup. star was among the 14 players selected for Team USA’s training camp roster in Cleveland on April 3-5, USA Basketball announced Thursday. Clark could participate if she doesn’t advance to the Final Four, which is held in Cleveland concurrently with the USA training camp. Advertisement has earned three gold medals with USA Basketball junior national teams, most recently on the 2021 USA Women’s U19 National Team. She averaged a team-high 14.3 point…

CLEVELAND — Ten hours before ’s women’s basketball team faced in the NCAA Final Four, new athletics director Beth Goetz was helping to prepare the next generation of women’s coaches. Goetz, 49, served on a panel offering advice to newly hired coaches. She once was in their position as a young soccer coach after graduating from . This is her way of giving back. But it didn’t distract her from what would take place on Friday evening — Advertisement In one of the most impactful eras in collegiate…

CLEVELAND — From the moment football lost to on Oct. 21 through an announcement that offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz would not return, then-interim athletics director Beth Goetz received 67 emails either calling for her to fire the head coach’s son or responding to her decision. The Athletic obtained those emails and fan vitriol was overwhelming in the Hawkeyes’ first home loss to the Gophers in 24 years. Iowa’s offense was the worst in the nation for two consecutive seasons and against Mi…

With College Football Playoff expansion and men’s basketball tournament rights totaling $2.4 billion annually and women’s basketball’s most marketable player in history — Iowa’s Caitlin Clark — launching her sport to unprecedented television viewership, collegiate sports appear healthy, vibrant and lucrative. That goes for everyone except the participants. Advertisement Questions are brewing from college officials to legal scholars about whether athletes should receive a piece of the postseason…

Former Iowa forward , son of men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery, has committed to playing his final collegiate season at Butler, he announced on Instagram on Saturday. McCaffery, 6-foot-9, played five seasons at Iowa with 61 starts in 123 games and totaled 1,044 points in his career. Health derailed him at times at Iowa, in part because of his thyroid cancer diagnosis in 2014. He medically redshirted his 2019-20 freshman year after lingering effects from medication related to cancer. In earl…

College football’s transfer portal opens again on Tuesday and closes on April 30, giving players the option to find new landing spots and teams the chance to shore up any personnel deficiencies for the fall. As of Sunday morning, the 18 Big Ten schools had 299 football players enter the portal during the previous cycle, according to player entries compiled by On3 and totaled by The Athletic. These numbers reflect the 2023-24 cycle that began Dec. 4, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2024, and extends throu…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — At the Iowa football facility, a place he considered a second home for six years, defensive tackle Noah Shannon left a secured hallway for the public foyer after his pro day workout concluded in March. Shannon had spent the previous three hours at the most important job interview of his life. The workouts had gone perfectly, especially with sizzling times in the shuttle (4.22 seconds) and 3-cone (7.0 seconds) drills. He stayed afterward to answer questions from NFL scouts about…

Longtime Big 12 rivals and will open the 2025 season in Dublin, Ireland in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. The game kicks off Aug. 23 and marks the first time Iowa State will play outside of the United States and just the second time for Kansas State. The Wildcats faced in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 5, 1992. Advertisement The 2025 season will be the sixth college football game ever played at Dublin’s 48,000-seat Aviva Stadium. It’s the first time two Big 12 Conference teams will meet in I…

Attorneys representing more than two dozen Iowa and Iowa State athletes have filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court nearly a year after a state law enforcement agency used to access gambling information by more than 40 athletes and hundreds of students at both campuses. Advertisement The six-count, 47-page lawsuit filed in the Southern District of Iowa in Des Moines accuses Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigation of violating the athletes’ civil rights and conducting an unreasonable s…

Spring practice has largely concluded, the and the transfer portal has shut down. Athletes are finishing their semester classes, coaches are making calls to fill out their rosters and spring recruiting is in full swing. It’s a perfect time to examine the new-look Big Ten with 18 schools. Geographic divisions are kaput after 10 years and West Coast newcomers , , Oregon and join the conference. Outside of 12 protected series, the league has a true rotation where every program will visit the othe…